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by Radar Blue
Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:13 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: New theory for Quantum Gravity
Replies: 7
Views: 909

Re: New theory for Quantum Gravity

be the beginning of greater understanding of Gravity? Could this be the beginning of a greater understanding of everything? He has an interesting angle, and that is the pulsing of the big bang. It does not contract so much as conventional big bang. And scores in cuddliness. His universe pulses like...
by Radar Blue
Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:07 am
Forum: The Science Labs: Participate in Citizen Science or Smartphone Science
Topic: Searching for Micrometeorites in Snow
Replies: 32
Views: 11638

Re: BITOD: Searching for Micrometeorites in Snow

1... what I found was most of the particles in the air fall within the first 5 minutes of a rain. 2. First does the snowflake collect particles as it falls down? The rain drop does, and my intuition says the snowflake does but, I have no hard data. If the snowflake doesn’t then the rain would be mo...
by Radar Blue
Sun Dec 06, 2009 12:59 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: BITOD: Bad Idea the of Day
Replies: 10
Views: 1722

Re: BITOD: Bad Idea the of Day

BITOD: Bad Idea the of Day The easiest way is to comment on these ideas: help seriously vet them. Show why they are logically inconsistent. Cite references that have considered a posted idea previously that I didn't seem to know about, like Wikipedia or a journal article. Or investigate them. Expan...
by Radar Blue
Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:56 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Fermi Provides Glimpse of Space-Time
Replies: 26
Views: 2560

Re: Fermi Provides Glimpse of Space-Time

[hard to decipher] Are you goofing on us. What ... Can you not read ? No, I had a glimpse of inspiration and saw a solution. It is good to provoke, and that was somewhat my intention. This is a blog and not a job appliance. Crackpot. Many theorists test their ideas for garbage. Einstein regretted f...
by Radar Blue
Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:38 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660 (APOD 2009 Dec 3)
Replies: 8
Views: 4514

Re: Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 660 (APOD 2009 Dec 3)

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091203.html Polar ring galaxies and dark matter The flattening of dark halos along polar rings can be confronted with the formation mechanism of polar rings. It has been shown that polar rings are formed during the tidal interaction of two galaxies, and the subsequent ma...
by Radar Blue
Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Fermi Provides Glimpse of Space-Time
Replies: 26
Views: 2560

Re: Fermi Provides Glimpse of Space-Time

HEAPOW: 2009 Nov 2 - The Great Photon Race At least according to Einstein, the speed of light in vacuum is the ultimate speed limit. Nothing can go faster (though light can go slower , at least through certain materials). But does all light travel at the same speed in vacuum? According to certain t...
by Radar Blue
Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:39 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Occilation
Replies: 19
Views: 801

Re: Oscillation

Oscillation Could it be said that a photon vibrates it's energy through the space medium at c? I mean after all, between the point source and target, photons are more like dark energy because like EM in general visibile light is anything BUT visible when between it's moments of emission and absorpt...